42 U.S.C. § 17321 — Definitions

In this subchapter: (1) “Appropriate congressional committees” means the House Committees on Foreign Affairs and Energy and Commerce, and the Senate Committees on Foreign Relations, Energy and Natural Resources, Environment and Public Works, and Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (2) “Clean and efficient energy technology” means an energy supply or end-use technology that, compared with a similar technology already widely used commercially in a recipient country, either (A) reduces greenhouse-gas emissions, or (B) increases energy-production efficiency or decreases energy-use intensity. (3) “Greenhouse gas” means (A) carbon dioxide, (B) methane, (C) nitrous oxide, (D) hydrofluorocarbons, (E) perfluorocarbons, or (F) sulfur hexafluoride.